With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft have needed to provide updates for older versions of SBS to make it work properly. Adding Windows 10 to an SBS 2008, SBS 2011 network or Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials itself is pretty simple. Here’s links to the Third Tier blog where you can see specific instructions on how to get Windows 10 working with these now defunct versions … [Read more...]

We’ve been doing a number of migrations from SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials + Exchange 2013., or other variations. So far all the clients have needed to migrate their public folders which is a long and complicated process that really is a pain. Recently we’ve had the need to migrate a client that has no Public Folders in their Exchange … [Read more...]

Building a new server today for a client, and as part of patching we manually installed Exchange 2013 Service Pack 3, and then of course the latest update rollup – which happens to be UR6. UR6 came out in May this year, so it’s not all that new.
The Exchange 2013 SP3 went on without a problem – right click, run as Administrator and it was away. It took maybe 30 minutes or … [Read more...]

Microsoft have recently released the latest update for SBS 2011 Standard. You can find the details here. What is interesting is that this includes a fix for SSL certificate requests to prevent the internal domain name eg mycompany.local from being included in the SSL certificate request that you would send to your SSL Certificate Provider. They have had to make … [Read more...]

When you are deploying a new SBS 2011 Standard network, your server will need a number of patches. In amongst them are two key patches that you SHOULD deploy first and foremost before adding clients to the network. These patches are listed below. Update Rollup 3 for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard Update for Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service … [Read more...]